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Since 2019, Matheon's application-oriented mathematical research activities are being continued in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+
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Dr. Soheil Hajian

soheil.hajian@hu-berlin.de


Research focus

Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Optimal Control of PDEs

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  • OT6

    Optimization and Control of Electrowetting on Dielectric for Digital Microfluidics in Emerging Technologies

    Prof. Dr. Michael Hintermüller

    Project heads: Prof. Dr. Michael Hintermüller
    Project members: Dr. Soheil Hajian
    Duration: 01.06.2017 - 31.12.2018
    Status: completed
    Located at: Humboldt Universität Berlin

    Description

    A number of emerging key technologies in microbiology, medical diagnostic devices, personal genomics, as well as next-generation low-energy OLED displays and liquid lenses make use of a phenomenon known as electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD). Electrowetting involves the manipulation of small (microscopic) droplets on a dielectric surface by the actuation of the underlying current. In fact, droplets in a typical EWOD device are situated between two separated hydrophobic surfaces, one of which contains an array of controllable electrodes. The air-liquid-solid contact angle can then by changed by varying the voltages on separate electrodes, which causes the droplets to move. Thus, the voltages are a natural choice for influencing (controlling) the motion of a droplet. The project pursues both sharp interface and phase field models, respectively, for the movement of droplets in an EWOD device. Both models make use of a macroscopic description for contact line pinning, which is due to contact angle hysteresis as well as molecular adhesion at the solid-liquid-air interface, for a faithful representation of the droplets velocity and cover different aspects properly. Due to the non-trivial dependencies on the moving interface in the sharp interface context, the proof of existence of an optimal control remains impossible without further restrictive assumptions or constraints, e.g., on the geometry, and the complexity of the phase field model poses severe challenges for a fast (real-time) numerical solution as needed for EWOD devices. For these reasons, instead of computing time-discrete or optimal controls the project work pursues an idea from model predictive control (MPC).

    http://www2.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~hajianso/ot6/

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